Starlight and Moon-Drift

Heart-rending loveliness in time,

Horizon light of eternity

Cloud-curtain lifted, a new sun-climb

Above this sapphire dome of sky.

In the dense of space a glowing dot

What if a hundred times it rise

And draped in darkness we see it not

Burning, burning before our eyes,

Ruby, diamond, and opal rays,

Within us glows the self-same light

Consuming the heavy nescient haze.

Though I am starlight and moon-drift tonight.